Wikipedia bans Daily Mail as ‘unreliable’ source

Last Updated: February 9, 2017By

Wikipedia Foundation office in San Francisco, US [Image: Eric Risberg/AP].

This Site has often received criticism from commenters after making reference to Wikipedia for facts.

In the light of this decision, one wonders whether the online encyclopaedia’s critics are avid Mail readers.

Wikipedia editors have voted to ban the Daily Mail as a source for the website in all but exceptional circumstances after deeming the news group “generally unreliable”.

The editors described the arguments for a ban as “centred on the Daily Mail’s reputation for poor fact checking, sensationalism and flat-out fabrication”.

Source: Wikipedia bans Daily Mail as ‘unreliable’ source | Technology | The Guardian

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2 Comments

  1. NMac February 9, 2017 at 9:10 am - Reply

    That’s good news, but shouldn’t the Sun, Daily Express and Daily Telegraph be treated in the same way?

  2. Barry Davies February 9, 2017 at 10:37 am - Reply

    Well wiki can be reliable but also unreliable on “facts” it has I have several times corrected its proven to be incorrect claims o deaths at stafford hospital, only to have the original claims which are not true put back into the pieces.

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